Proverbs 17:22 New English Translation (NET Bible)

22 A cheerful heart brings good healing,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

 

Here I am dressed in black, smiling in the sunshine

Is it not amazing how I attract the light?

Absorbing the Sonshine without any reflection

To be smilingly digested to strengthen my inside

 

Time heals many things as it grinds away

Yesterday's successes don't mean a thing

Maybe all in all, as the past slowly fades

Little of that matters when the final bell rings

 

How could this happen to me, just a lonely spectator?

I thought the infringement of death was for someone else

Who will remember me now in this confused theater?

In what we call existence here, in our show and tell

 

Breathing fairly heavy to show I am still around

Hoping to be noticed by the ones who don't care

It seems that at this moment, I'm running aground

Because of some turbulence coming in from nowhere

 

Stuck in the sand debating the solid rock

Where I could have been with just obedience

Now I struggle as it seems forever around the clock

Wasting time and effort pleading for some lenience

 

Jan Wienen